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...triggering massive risk replacement for the many derivative contracts held by Lehman, increasing potential systemic risk in the markets, and instilling a general lack of investor confidence. “We were well prepared, but we didn’t expect the Lehman failure, and obviously things were terribly difficult in the fall,” Kaplan says, noting that even a diversified portfolio cannot protect investors against simultaneous drops in nearly all asset classes. “The only precaution you could have had for that is not to be invested.”By Oct. 31, the endowment...
...midst of an unprecedented financial crisis, when job cuts at the University seem inevitable and the union’s role is more important then ever, the balancing act—between effective partnership with the University and aggressive advocacy to save jobs—is a difficult one. For Jaeger, the man charged with maintaining the uneasy equilibrium, the job has not gotten any easier...
...over half of its annual budget, third-most among the University’s 11 schools. “A bad day,” Jaeger calls the date when the payout decision was announced. In fact, it was probably more than that: the first clear signal of how difficult it would be for HUCTW to ensure that its members would escape the financial crisis unscathed...
...human resources offices—all of which previously reported directly to the President. And Forst—as well as his financial expertise—has proven invaluable to Faust over the past year, as he accompanies her to meetings with deans at the various schools and leads difficult but necessary conversations about Harvard’s financial state...
...always willing to listen. “She is so committed to every student that she has,” Coles said. “She wants to see you succeed in everything that you do.” Carpio also possesses a gift for navigating difficult topics in the classroom, said Christina A. Knight, a graduate student who served as a teaching fellow for Carpio’s class African and African American Studies 112: “Black Humor.” “She manages to keep the richness of humor as a topic of study...